Edward Said's Orientalism can be summed up in three following points: first
he talks of the distinction between pure and political knowledge, shows the
power relation of any text to political, cultural, intellectual and moral
domain; secondly he shows how the methodology used by the West to define
and interpreting the Orient is just a part of the process that
Orientalises the Orient and how his methodology of "historical
generalization" is differ...
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